The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

by KazuoIshiguro (Author)

Synopsis

'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past...A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love. The Remains of the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 01 Apr 2010

ISBN 10: 0571258247
ISBN 13: 9780571258246
Book Overview: The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's best-loved Booker Prize-winning novel.

Author Bio
Kazuo Ishiguro's eight books have won him world-wide renown and many honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Dayand Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of one million copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His most recent novel, The Buried Giant, was published in 2015, debuting at number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list.